Most people who find teas.co.uk arrive on a Tea Wiki page, not a product page. So we went through what people were actually searching for, found the questions our pages were not answering, and wrote the answers. Every fact in the new material was checked against the maker or an official source on the day, and each page lists what it relied on.
Three rules ran through all of it. No health promises. No prices typed into the text, because prices change and the products themselves show today's price. And where we do not sell something, the page says so and shows the closest thing we do.
The new guides
Buying guides
- Dessert Teas: Cake, Biscuit and Chocolate Flavoured Brews. Dessert teas are tea bags flavoured to taste of cake, biscuits, toffee or chocolate. Here is what is in them, which contain caffeine, and the ones in stock at teas.co.uk.
- Regional Teas of Britain and Ireland: A Buying Guide. Glengettie from Wales, Scottish Blend, Thompson's from Belfast, Barry's from Cork and Yorkshire Tea Hard Water: what each regional tea is, and where to buy it.
- Christmas Tea Gifts: Selection Boxes, Gift Cards and the Tea Club. Tea gift ideas for Christmas: selection boxes, festive flavours with biscuits, gift cards and a Tea of the Month Club gift, with advice on posting.
- Hard Water Tea Guide: Which Tea for Your UK Region. What the water companies say about hard and soft water in each UK region, and the teas blended for each, led by Yorkshire Tea Hard Water.
- Border Biscuits and Tea: A Pairing Guide. One tea for every Border biscuit, from Butterscotch Crunch to Dark Chocolate Ginger, with the reasoning behind each pairing.
- Loose Leaf Starter Kit: A Strainer and Three Familiar Blends. What you need to start with loose leaf tea: one strainer, something to brew in, and loose versions of blends you already drink. With the makers' own quantities and timings.
Brands and ranges
- Tetley Green Tea: The Range Compared. Tetley sells four main green teas: Pure Green, Lemon, Mango and Passion Fruit, and Decaf Pure Green. All come as 50 tea bags weighing 100g, so the choice is about flavour and caffeine.
- Yorkshire Tea Pack Sizes: 40, 80, 160 and 240 Compared. Yorkshire Tea comes in boxes of 40, 80, 160 and 240 tea bags, weighing 125g, 250g, 500g and 750g. Every size holds the same weight of tea per bag, so the choice is about how fast your household drinks it.
- Is Typhoo QT Discontinued?. Typhoo has not announced that QT instant tea is discontinued, and its own shop still lists it. It has become hard to find in shops. This page sets out what we can see, how to make it and where to buy it.
- Teapigs All Day Brew and Everyday Brew: The Same Tea?. Teapigs All Day Brew and Everyday Brew are different blends. All Day Brew is Kenyan and Ceylon tea; Everyday Brew is Teapigs' English breakfast blend of Assam, Rwandan and Ceylon tea.
- Teapigs Superfruit: The Berry Infusion Explained. Teapigs Superfruit is a caffeine free fruit infusion of hibiscus, elderberries, currants, blackcurrants, cranberries and blueberries. Here is what is in it and how to make it hot or iced.
Questions answered
- Cup of Char: Meaning and Origin. A cup of char is a cup of tea. Char is the Chinese word cha, brought into British slang by soldiers who had served in India.
- Best Quality Tea Bags in the UK. What quality means in a tea bag: the leaf, the bag material and the blend. Plus five quality tea bags we stock and why each one is here.
- How to Make Tea for a Crowd: 20, 50 or 100 Cups. Quantities of tea bags, water and milk for 20, 50 and 100 cups, the urn method step by step, what to do without an urn, and which packs to buy.
- Thai Tea vs Hong Kong Milk Tea: Making Both at Home. Thai tea and Hong Kong milk tea both start with very strong Ceylon style black tea and tinned milk. This page compares them and gives a home version of each using ordinary tea bags.
Existing pages with new sections
These pages already had readers. Each now answers something it did not answer before.
- "Spill the Tea": Origin Explained: new section, "Three older tea phrases, and where they come from".
- Barley tea: mugicha, boricha and how to brew it: new section, "Hot or cold: how the serve changes by country".
- Best Earl Grey Tea UK: new section, "Earl Grey ranked by bergamot strength".
- Best Green Tea UK: Picks by Use Case: new section, "Best green tea bags".
- Best Herbal Tea UK: new section, "Herbal tea by flavour family: two picks from each".
- Best Matcha UK: new section, "Loyd matcha powder: what you get".
- Best decaf tea UK: new section, "Decaf tea bags we sell, brand by brand".
- Best loose leaf tea UK: new section, "New to loose leaf tea? Start here".
- Black Tea Caffeine: UK Brands Compared: new section, "Where black tea comes from: four origins to know".
- Builders' Tea: new section, "What the name means and where it comes from".
- Caffeine in Tea: new section, "The league table: every cup from none to most".
- Can You Make Tea in a Microwave?: new section, "Microwave timings by mug size and wattage".
- Can You Take Teabags on a Plane?: new section, "Teabags in hand luggage".
- Can you put milk in chamomile tea?: new section, "Camomile latte: the quick mug method".
- Can you take tea into Australia?: new section, "New Zealand, the USA and Canada: what each border agency says".
- Chai Latte Explained: Cafe Drinks and Masala Chai: new section, "A chai latte at home in two minutes".
- Chai vs Coffee: new section, "Caffeine in chai and coffee, drink by drink".
- Chrysanthemum tea: what it is and how to brew it: new section, "The flower types: gongju, hangbaiju and the rest".
- Corn tea: Korea's sweet, toasty everyday brew: new section, "Oksusu-cha at a glance".
- Darjeeling Tea: A Guide to the Four Flushes: new section, "Flush, picking months and milk in one table".
- Does Chamomile Tea Have Caffeine?: new section, "Camomile blends that do contain tea".
- Does Earl Grey Have Caffeine?: new section, "Decaf Earl Grey: what is on the shelf".
- Does Peppermint Tea Have Caffeine?: new section, "The catch: mint green tea blends".
- Does Tea Expire: new section, "How to read the date printed on a tea box".
- Does Tea Make You Pee: new section, "Does tea dehydrate you? What the published studies found".
- English Breakfast Caffeine: new section, "What each maker publishes for its own tea".
- English Breakfast vs Earl Grey: The Difference: new section, "Which one for milk?".
- How Much Caffeine Is in Decaf Tea?: new section, "The makers' own figures, brand by brand".
- How many teabags per pot?: new section, "Pot size table: bags, loose leaf grams and minutes".
- Is it OK to drink tea before bed?: new section, "Caffeine by tea type".
- Low caffeine tea: the clear list: new section, "Least caffeine first: the ranking".
- Nilgiri Tea: India's Blue Mountains: new section, "Where to buy Nilgiri tea in the UK".
- PG Tips: The Brand and the Range: new section, "Pack sizes we stock".
- Plastic Free Tea Bags: The UK Brand Status: new section, "What each maker says today, November 2026".
- Reheating Tea: It Dulls, It Doesn't Ruin: new section, "How long is brewed tea safe to keep?".
- Should You Put Milk in Green Tea?: new section, "Matcha latte: the green tea made for milk".
- Tetley: Caffeine Levels by Product: new section, "Every Tetley pack size we stock".
- The Most Expensive Tea in the World (and Why): new section, "The price ladder, from supermarket box to auction lot".
- Twinings History: new section, "The range today, by family".
- UK Tea Slang, Explained: new section, "Cup of char: meaning and origin".
- Why Does Milk Curdle in Tea? The Chemistry: new section, "Oat, soya and almond milk in tea".
- Why does tea bubble or foam when you pour it?: new section, "Foam when the water came from a microwave".
- Yorkshire Tea Bedtime Brew: ingredients and brewing: new section, "Is Bedtime Brew discontinued?".
- Yorkshire Tea History: Family Owned Market Leader: new section, "The range today".
More questions answered
A further 52 pages gained a short set of answered questions:
Assam Tea: Origins, Estates and Seasonal Flushes, Barry's Tea Gold Blend: What Makes Irish Tea Different, Bedtime tea: choose by caffeine and ingredients, Best Biscuit to Dunk in Tea, Best Lipton Tea: What to Buy, Best Tea Bags for the Office UK, Best Tea for Bubble Tea, Ceylon Tea, Chai Without the Caffeine, Cheapest Tea Per Cup: The Real Ranking, Cost Per Cup: The Only Fair Tea Value Test, Dragonfly Tea: History, Organic Teas and Rooibos, English Breakfast Tea, Fairtrade Tea, Fruit Tea, Genmaicha: Toasted Rice Green Tea, Explained, Glengettie: The Welsh Breakfast Tea, Hojicha, Explained: Why Roasting Changes Everything, Hot Chocolate UK: Buying It Well, How Is Caffeine Removed from Tea? Decaffeination Explained, How to Make Kombucha From Tea (Careful Beginner Guide), Hyson: Sri Lankan Tea and the Ceylon Range, Instant Tea: Lift, Typhoo QT and the Convenience Debate, Lapsang Souchong Explained: Smoke and Brewing, Lemon Balm Tea, Lift: The Nostalgic Instant Lemon Tea, Loose Leaf Tea: Why It Is Better, and Barely Harder, Loyd: Value Tea and Its Dependable Picks, One Cup Tea Brewing: Loose Leaf Without a Pot, Oolong Tea, Organic Green Tea: Is It Worth the Premium?, Osmanthus tea: the apricot-scented flower, Pu-erh tea: raw, ripe, brewing and buying, Pukka Herbs, Purple Tea, Rooibos vs Redbush, Sage Tea, Tea India: Authentic Masala Chai for UK Homes, Tea Subscriptions: The UK Box Services, The Tea Break: A British Institution, The Teabag: How an Accident Conquered Britain, The Typhoo Collapse: What Actually Happened, The UK Tea Brand Ownership Map, The UK Tea Lady: A Workplace Tea Trolley Memory, Thompson's (Punjana): Belfast Family Tea Since 1896, Turkish Tea, Twinings Buttermint, UK Tea Price Increases: What's Driving the Cost, 2020 to 2025, UK Tea Rationing: The Wartime Story, 1940 to 1952, Who Makes Supermarket Tea? The Copacker Reality, Yellow Tea: The Rare Smoothed Green, Yorkshire Gold vs Yorkshire Original: Which to Buy.
How the pages connect
Each new guide links to its closest existing pages, and those pages link back with a "Read next" line, so you can follow a subject from one page to the next. Almost every wiki page also now carries a shortlist of teas that match what the page is about, with a link on to the full shelf.
What we did not do matters as well. Several guides we had planned turned out to cover subjects the wiki already had a page for. Publishing a second page on the same subject helps nobody, so those became new sections on the existing page instead.
Where to start
The Tea Wiki index lists everything from A to Z. If you would rather just be pointed at a tea, the tea finder takes about a minute, and the shop has all 402 products from 40 brands.
